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  "The third is the voice of the poet when he attempts to create a dramatic character speaking in verse": First Edition of T.S. Eliot's The Three Voices of Poetry; Inscribed by Him to Fellow Poet and Publisher John Lehmann

  ELIOT, T.S.

  The Three Voices of Poetry.

  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954.

  First edition of Eliot's essay on the modes of poetic composition delivered as the annual lecture of England's National Book League. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Lehmann with cordial wishes T.S. Eliot 19.10.54." The recipient, John Lehmann was an English publisher, poet and man of letters, who founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. He joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company, John Lehmann Limited, with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann (who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets, Cecil Day-Lewis). They published new works by authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Nikos Kazantzakis, and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. Lehmann edited two anthologies of new writing entitled Orpheus: A Symposium of the Arts (1948–49). He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David, A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. He published two of Denton Welch's posthumous works: A Voice Through a Cloud (for which he supplied the title) (1950) an...

  Price: $3,500.00     Item Number: 151598

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  Limited First Edition English Translation of St. J. Perse's Anabasis; Signed by T. S. Eliot

  ELIOT, T.S.

  Anabasis: A Poem by St. J. Perse.

  London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1930.

  Signed limited first edition of this famous poem by Marie René Auguste Alexis Léger under the pseudonym St. J. Perse, translated from the original French by T. S. Eliot, which Eliot wrote is "of same importance as the later work of Mr. James Joyce;" from the library of poet and literary critic, William Everson. Royal octavo, original cloth. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by the Eliot on the limitation page, this is number 243. In near fine condition. From the library of William Everson, signed and dated on the front free endpaper, "William Everson July 3, 1941 Elk. Calif." William 'Bill' Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet who played a significant role in the literary scene of the mid-20th century. He was significantly influential in the San Francisco Renaissance, drawing inspiration from the psychological work of Carl Jung and his spiritual experience in the Catholic Church. This ownership inscription, dated 1941, would have pre-dated Everson's incarceration as a conscientious objector to World War II by two years.

  Price: $1,750.00     Item Number: 145470

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